Pomona Colleor Joi-hnal ok Entomology 501 



PIcnd not ilfllcxt-il, with vyvs fully as broiid as thorax, rulliiT small, piiiictntc. 

 <)cci])ital margin arcuati- soiiit-wliat, not clcvatrd narrowly; vertex discnlly c)uiti- 

 plane, with a slij^ht impression in eeiiter, and raised somewhat on postocellar re- 

 gions; anterior margin not very deeply emarfrinatt^ at median .suture, .slightly cmar- 

 ginate over anteiinal insertions, l-'aeial eones entirely wanting; antennal bases 

 not swollen. Genii' not )irominent; eyes small; ocelli small; anterior ocellu.s scarcely 

 stalked, not visible from above. Antennw short, slender. I.abrum relatively 

 rather large, subglobo.se, pubescent; rostrum short. 



Thora.x arched, quite broad, coarsely punctate, i'ronotum long, alxiut half as 

 long as dorsulum, flat on dorsal surface; pleurites short, depressi-d ; pleural suture 

 erect, shorter than e])isterinnn, forecoxie rather large. Dorsulum short, broad; 

 scutum nnich longir than dorsulum. Il'iu<(s small, luit hyaline, subcorinceous, cor- 

 rugated, whitish; about two jind a half times as long as broad, broadest across first 

 ni.'irginal cell, (luile broadly roun<led at apex; first margin;d cell lung, more than 

 half the length of radial margin; second marginal ci'll short, triangular; radius 

 long, curved apically ; pterostigm;i wanting. cul)it;il i>etiole slightly shorter than 

 diseoidal subcosta. 



Male — Abdomen short. (Jenit.-il sigment relatively l;irge; claspers short, very 

 broad and heavy, subspatul.'itc at iipt-x ; atial valve viTy largi-; posterior lobe long 

 and slender, longer than genital pl.ate ; inferior process small; axial epiphysis 

 (juite prominent. 



l-'cmalc — Abdomen stout, (ienital segnu-nt long, stout, subacute at apex; dor- 

 sal plate slightly longer than \entral. serr;ited on inferior margin caudad. 



Dcserilied from many males and females collected in Orrasby county, Nevada, 

 by C. F. Baker. This species may be known in some collections by the manuscrijit 

 name of .Ipli. ucciileiitalis. 



Aphalara picta /cllerstcdt 



(Figure 158, M, R; \r,9, O; 16'0, O) 



(.Syn. Aph. flaripcnnU Forst., Aph. nervosa Thorns, [nee Forst.]) 



{Vsylla alpigena M. 1)., I'xi/lla sonclii Forst.) 



Length of body 3.S mm. ; length of forewing 4.2 mm. or less ; greatest width 2.0 

 mm. or less; width of vertex between eyes .() ^ nm). ; with eyes 1.16 mm. General 

 color light yellowish brown to brown. N'otum often more or less conspicuously 

 striped longitudinally; abdomen darker; wings flavous. Hody very large and stout. 



Head scarcely dcHexed, large, vertex continuing plane of dorsum; profile tri- 

 angular; with eyes not as broad as thorax, ])unctate. Vertex flat, almost plane, 

 with a small fovea in rear center on each side of median suture; occipital margin 

 arcuate, not elevated ; postocellar areas scarcely elevated ; anterior margin cmargi- 

 nate at median suture, and very slightly so over insertion of antcnniF. Facial 

 cones entirely wanting; gcniv not swollen. I.abrum very small, posterior, subglo- 

 l)osc; rostrum short. F.yes relatively very large, coxcring most of side of head; an- 

 terior ocellus under vertex, slightly slalkid. not visibli' from above, .\nteniue short, 

 filiform, inserted bencith vertex, latcr.id. 



